Wang J, Masuzawa T, Yanagihara Y
Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan.
FEMS Microbiol Lett. 1997 Sep 15;154(2):371-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1997.tb12669.x.
The outer surface proteins OspA and OspB genes of clinical Borrelia garinii isolates (JEM1-8) from Hokkaido, Japan were sequenced. One strain, JEM4, has a single ospA gene which is similar to European B. garinii strains PBr (sequence homology value: 94.1%) and T25 (91.2%). Five of the other seven strains exhibit a homologous C-terminus (300 bp) on both ospA and ospB genes (88.7-97.3%). The other two strains seem to be derived from the five strains by ospA or ospB alterations. In a phylogenetic analysis based on ospA, these strains could be classified into B. garinii, but formed independent branches and separated from the typical B. garinii isolates from Europe and Russia.
对来自日本北海道的临床加氏疏螺旋体分离株(JEM1 - 8)的外表面蛋白OspA和OspB基因进行了测序。其中一个菌株JEM4有一个单一的ospA基因,它与欧洲加氏疏螺旋体菌株PBr(序列同源性值:94.1%)和T25(91.2%)相似。其他七个菌株中的五个在ospA和ospB基因上都表现出同源的C末端(300 bp)(88.7 - 97.3%)。另外两个菌株似乎是由这五个菌株通过ospA或ospB的改变衍生而来。在基于ospA的系统发育分析中,这些菌株可被归类为加氏疏螺旋体,但形成了独立的分支,并与来自欧洲和俄罗斯的典型加氏疏螺旋体分离株分开。